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Contemplative radicals

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Engaged Dharma Israel (EDI), a radical‐left group, combines Buddhist‐inspired contemplation with anti‐occupation activism in solidarity with Palestinians. For EDI, ethical self‐cultivation and political resistance are mutually sustaining commitments, yet their relationship demands ongoing, sometimes anxious work.
Ori Mautner
wiley   +1 more source

The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View

, 2012
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incoherence of Buddhist modernism, a protean formation that accommodates elements as far afield as ancestral Buddhism and psychotherapies claiming the Buddhist ...
Higgins, W
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The Study of Practice in the Vehicles of Men and Gods and the Bodhisattva Vehicle: Perspectives from Master Taixu to Master Hsing Yun

Religions
This paper explores the perspectives of Master Taixu (太虛, 1890–1947) and Master Hsing Yun (星雲, 1927–2023) on the practice of the Buddhist Five Vehicles (五乘), particularly focusing on the relationship between the Vehicles of Men and Gods (人天乘) and the ...
Chienhuang Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Worldview Silencing: Recognizing Reasoned Objections to Brain Death

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The determination of death by neurologic criteria (brain death) has increasingly become a topic of controversy. Here we address a question that provokes clinical ethics consultations and scholarly debate: “how should objections to the declaration of neurologic death be handled?” While much of the discourse on this question has focused on the ...
Jennifer L. McCurdy, Amanda Hine, Georgina Campelia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regularized reduced rank regression for mixed predictor and response variables

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we introduce the Generalized Mixed Regularized Reduced Rank Regression model (GMR4), an extension of the GMR3 model designed to improve performance in high‐dimensional settings. GMR3 is a regression method for a mix of numeric, binary and ordinal response variables, while also allowing for mixed‐type predictors through optimal ...
Lorenza Cotugno, Mark de Rooij, Roberta Siciliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water and Power in Manchuria in the Late 19th - First Third of the 20th Centuries: Geopolitical Rivalry and the Struggle of Narratives in Russian-Language and English-L anguage Scholarly Works

RUDN Journal of Political Science
Drawing on the sustained scholarly interest in the “struggle for Manchuria” and the pressing need for critical source analysis, particularly in the context of the contemporary geopolitical landscape of the Asia-Pacific region, this article revisits the ...
Pavel N. Dudin
doaj   +1 more source

Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker, Jing‐Bao Nie, Anita Ho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religiosity and Debt Maturity: International Evidence

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between country‐level religiosity and corporate debt maturity. We develop competing predictions reflecting creditor‐ and borrower‐side channels through which religiosity may favor either shorter or longer maturity. Using 407,399 firm‐year observations from 56 countries and territories over 1996–2021, we find
Xingyu Chen, Dequan Jiang, Xin Liu, Changqiu Yu, Steven Xiaofan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patience Stones: Material Encounters for Slow Currents of Pedagogy

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This article moves across sites in Canada and Japan with the practice of making Patience Stones (Sang‐e Saboor), a biodegradable, dough‐based artistic and pedagogical object that invites artist–teachers and artist–learners into with‐nessing and slow becoming.
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto
wiley   +1 more source

The Tension Between Buddhism and Science Within Contemporary Chinese Buddhists: A Case Study on the Religious Conversion Narrative Among Monastics in Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Religions
This article delves into the perception of monastics from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy of Western China concerning the intertwining relationship between Buddhism and science, along with the impact of this perception on their worldview and life trajectory.
Yingxu Liu, Saiping An
doaj   +1 more source